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"PROFESSOR
Professor Krajina
My name headed the execution list...
Professor Krajina was a name little known in Britain until a few weeks ago, when Lord Vansittart told extraordinary story about him in the House of Lords.
an
Krajina, said Lord Van- Czech who sittart, was a was one of the outstanding underground workers for the Allies in the war.
It was ho who told Britain of the German inten- tion to invado Scandinavia, the Low Countries, and Franco.
He also gave the
first warning of the Gorman intention to invado Russia,
But after the.. war Krajina found that the Com- munists who seized control. in Czechoslovakia had little use for the man who loved freedom and had fought for it at great peril. They decided to liquidate him.
He escaped, and later in his absence was sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment.
Here is Professor Krajina's own factual account of his life and escape.
WAS born on January 30, 1903, at Slavice, in Moravin, youngest son of a teacher, who died in 1918. I have four sisters still living, and a brother who was executed by the Germans in 1942.
My son Emanuel was a lieutenant with the Czecho- slovakian Air Force in Britain, where he died in 1941.
After studying nt
the Charles University, Prague, I was made a doctor of botony in 1028, and set out on selenlife trips which look me to Poland, Huwoitan Islands. Amerion, Cuba, and Pasama,
toss admitted ta 1034 04 lecturer 011 systemte botany and gen-botany at Charles University.
Before the Second World War I devnied myself to social condi- tions
of pcientific Krowth in Czechoslova- icia.
Politically I was al- ways on the side of Masaryk and Benes, and
sharp was In opposition Lo the Fascist-inclined circles of high school profes cors an obstacle ta quicker scientific
career.
My arrest
In 1938, after
Munich, I entered the
They immediately pump-
ed out my stomach and kept me altre.
I was taken to Prague,
They brought my wife from Ravensbruck
concentra-
tion camp, where she had been for two years,
2 Franic was interrogated 12
times in an effort to mako, him testify against me. On the 42th occasion, when approached with a completed protocol which was not even read to him. Frank was supposed to have signed it |
3 When Frank was interrogat-
Drop this idea
that 'the child is always right'
N
by A Schoolmaster
1939, when I left The three R's, wa nre told, schoolmastering to join ndamental things in the junior Aro no longer eopsidered tha the RAF, schools were school.
al still places where children
ed by General Ever Frankfurt, General Ecer asked him whom he considered to be
were
educnted. When I "Activities" are the thing. Anything old is, of necessity, play- bad.
Note, though, that the entrance
to the examination
grammar demands, together
the most courageous man in the returned to my job I found Anything novel or now in good. Czech home resistance move-they had become ment, Frank answered "Profes-contres. sor Krajina."*
Today we schoolteachers schools still
It was sold that while in Terezin concentration camp are told by "experts" that with intelligence, a knowledge I was housed in special quarters what the child wants to of the three R's, with my wife and five other do must, prisoners and that we had spe- right,
cial concessions.
ed
out trial caught communicat- ing with anybody eine;
of necessity, be
This is a matter of some con- cern to parents who cannot Kod the hugo fees required to
Way
These "concessions" includ- The child knows better send children to an independent We were to be executed with-Inspectors ask
than the experienced adult, school but have to watch their
children playing their the child:
through the junior school. "Do you like doing For eight months we had no arithmetic? Wouldn't you exercise;
rather be doing something else?"
Practically every day people passed on their way to the scaf- fold, which
was almost under our windows;
In the course of my forced work I was employed transport- ing atones to the place of execu- tion:
I had to wash out the bathing place used exclusively by the Gestapo,
No evidence
THE
came
to
Never wrong
If children are quiet it is a grave reflection on tho teacher.
"A child Therefore it
be quiet.
loves noise." should never **Encourage
Not unnaturally, these parents would like to see their children taught basle English and arith- metic rather than puppetry or cardboard modelling or the New Art.
"Ahl" say the Experts, "The parent does not understand what is best for the child Take no
notice of hire.”
'Old-fashioned'
in hammering
the cor- INVESTIGAT-
one educa fashioned, ING commission
ridors," SAYS was interrogated the conclusion that there was no by K.H. Frank in the evidence against me
tionist. "Let them move presence
freely," On the about contrary, they felt I should be other,
of Protector
Daluege and about 30 Gestapo officiais.
Frook
know
wanted
tu
saya
an-
So that in where our brave new education has arrived. The parent and the teacher are old- and do not under- land what is best for the child.
Only the Expert knows that---- and, of courne, the child!
Now, I believe it is time that "Don't spoil their work
ok mily aware ink-it discour parents were with red
what goes on in the name of and Woa decorated with
education today. the ages them," says a third. highest Czechoslovaktan war
You see? The child is
rewarded.
The Communists reluctantly gave way. I accepted a profer-
the reasons sorship at Charles University. which led to our re- sistance activities.
I told him why we honours-the War Cross and the the Gerinus Medal of Merit, 1st Class.
hated
and
!
that our only salvation lay in the
Independence
v
Czechoslovakina public,
the
It-
Prolenor Vladimir Krajina
During the long in- terview Frank twice affered me a Minis- terial post, which I refused.
I was kept in the Pelschek Palace pri
son. From there I sent by two ways warnings
to London which ar- rived in time.
I was suspected, and suffered
long inter-
threatened to kill the whole of my family, but I refused to admit my "gullt.”
knew
Frank did not want me to live. Ho entrusted the liquida- ment organisation known 03 As they were let in, I escaped tion of a concentration camp at "The Political Centre, which, up a wido chimney, ran over the Terezin, where I was sent, to a soon after, started contact with tops of several houses and got Gestapo man named Fuchs Dr Benes, who Great Britain.
underground move-
then in
away. Was
But they got me, after I was betrayed.
From 1039 I was head of the news service organisation in Czochoslovakia until 1043 when I was arrested.
They promised people working with me that noth- ing would
happen to me. This was early in 1943,
10 January 1940, I set up It was when I was in contact' together with the army under-
with a group of parachutista ground movement, a central re-
who got into tourt with some uistance organisation called Communists
before contacting UVOD, which later was joined me, by other non-Communist resist.
ance organisations. Only the The parachutists were captured
Ordered
grave
LATE IN April 1945 Fuchs gave the order for the ex- ecution of 700 inmates.
The Terezin murderer Jockel gave instructions for a large grave to be dug. But the day before the execu- tions were scheduled Terezin was visited by the commandant of the district who cancelled the
Communists kept away from by the Gestape sixteen days be executions. The list was headed
thus organisation.
I put Info operation the only radio-telegraphlo con- tact which was set up by the home front underground movement without the help of resistance bolles from abroad.
This functioued
between 1930-43,
During this time,
tho
115-
fore my arrest,
Yet it is the Cominunists who say today that the parachutists were betrayed to the Gestapo by
mc.
Warning ignored
THE GESTAPO got hold of
hend teacher.
with help of a small number of sistants, I sent more than 20,000 They threatened to razo four despatches 10 secret news areas like Lidice unless he re- agencies In Polland, Britain, veated where i was. Rumania, Yugoslavia, and Pales- line, and deciphered about 8,000 Governor Frank himself told despatches.
him that no horm would come
A great many of the despat- to ma clres were of exceptional value, us they disclosed life coming
I ignored a warning to give
plans of the Germans. The Allies myself up inside three days. But mado good use of the informa- the clue given to the Gestapo tion.
led to my hiding-place at Tur-
Chimney
ΠΟΥ,
escape
On January 30, 1943, I was FROM 1941-43 I was relent- surrounded by scores of Gesia. lessly rought, by the Ges. po men and Czech policemen tapo. They offered £5,000 for acting under their orders, my capture.
I tried to polson myself with
by myself and my wife.
On May 1, 1945, the Gestapo brought me la Prague-his was when the news was already known that Hitler was dead and requested that I should
On May 26, 1946, I was elected to the Acw Czech Parliament. I was being in a Bat 100 yards away from the main police H.Q., In Prague,
never wrong.
When they are, I think they will demand-and, who
their chil- Even if his grammar is better right?--that
his spelling dren shall be taught, non-existent,
his handwriting atrocious, illegible, don't tell him. most of whom are fed up with
That will cuit the
teachers,
If you do, you may hinder the theories of the educationists One day after the Communist him from expressing him- and want to teach. putsch, although as on M.P. 1 was protected by diplomatic imself. munity, I was arrested by a group of plain-clothes policemen fed by a Russian polleeman who spoke only Russian.
Fled
on
skis
What he likes
It is my opinion that children should be taught the difference between right and wrong; that they should learn that most things can bu obtained only by solid work; and
There is no question of worth-while a child being told to do a thing because some older that when they leave school they MY WIFE went to the and wiser person knows it swuld be able to read and write
and do simple calculations. He must Government, and on Prent-is best for him. dent Benes personal interven-do what he likes. tion I was released.
in
fled across the border on skis, and turned up at a fellow-compatriot's flat Earls Court, London, still in my ski clothes-they were all I had.
I learned that my family fat in Czech was the most closely guarded in the capital,
in-
At the
are
very time when his father (and his mother!) being exhorted to work harder
It can be done
It can be done. It can be done
to produce more goods on to without the provision of ex- practise self-denial by caving, pereive new buildings and costly the child is being brought up to new apparatus and furniture, believe that he should do just
Just drop the idea that the whatever he likes,
But I sent underground
We are producing a generation hot want to work structions out-and my wife, which does daughter of 15 and a baby, and Ask any employer, my mother-in-law, soon joined me in London.
-(London Express Service)
его We generation echicated.
also producing a which 13 not
child always knowy best and
all its school fe,. should play and let the teachers teach..
The sooner this is done, the better.
--(London Bxpress Service)
C.V.R. Thompson Reports
ineet Frank in order to arrange ONC
sume sort of Government.
Then the Gestapo men could Ace to the West, I refused to irect Frunk or enter
any Government formed by the Ger- mans.
Liberated
I WAS Imprisoned again, in a small castle at Generalka, near Prague, with several others whom the Germans wished now to use to form n Government.
On May. 7, 1945, I was berated. I became general secretary of the Crecho- slovakian National Socialist Parts.
nearly a year.
The American Scene
NEW YORK. 11 slowly. We are NCE again the United States sUFI,”
Navy is showing the Royal Navy.
envy of
bome
DROADWAYTTES
Yel iwo years ago Amerien's admirals, and par
standing tonalism, thes ho should 150
have
back where he came from and iry Mr Hiltier again.”
lost
of B the place where they al- CPORTS GROUPS in New to let off steam York are asking Washing- ticularly the air admirals, felt ways went sorry for the British Navy. It about the world's famous and ton's permission to bring Ger-
world's infamous. Tho
irst man boxer Max Schmeling to was all right in old-fashioned newere:1 theatre, the Embassy, the US as a ruller. Fea warfare, they sald, but they luss given up after 20 years, thought its air arm, according But TV la not the main reason.
to ovidence they gave Washington, was "pathetle."
They claimed that the Royal Navy had been dominated the air by the RAF.
in
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NOOD MONEY--Over Snys inc owner, French tons of foreign coins 1953 Githens: "In the old days our dumped in Long Island Sound, fans had people to get worked off New York, by officials of the up over. They loved booing Chase National Bank, Hitler and Mussolini, or cheer- said the coins were of no value Ing
Roosevelt and Churchill. in the US, and the cost of ship- But in the recent inter-Ser- But the world is dull and im- ping them back.or vics rumpus in Washington the personal now, You can't get them down would exceed their
admirala have been 100 feet of good film out of the dollar value. Into Becond place. cold war.”
U.S. air pushed Long-mnge bombers for the air
So from now on the Embassy
"Quartet.".
Britain's
melunz
I asked the Goverment to in-force have been given priority becomes another "art" cinema. (ITY: Just because Rita Hay- vestigate my case
in view of over the navy's aircraft Its first Han
worth got married, 2,800 shareholders may get à dividend Communist allegations about my carriers.
This took Still unwilling to give up, the
this year. The most publicised national reliability.
admirals are preparing a new
marriage the year bag caused INSTEIN'S claim that atomic such a boom in her old films that The results were as follows:-- argument.
"Look at
the Royal Navy," energy outmodes national Columbia Pictures Corporation The Communists tried to they will say. "It is building ism got this reply from Rear- hopes to show a handsome profit In the suburbs of Prague, they potassium cyanide, but the Gea-1 manufacture
evidenca six aircraft carriers while we Admiral James Fito, submarine and resumo dividends on its then tupo knew that I carried the pol- against me, and their chief wit-are allowed to build only one, chief of the U.S. Atlantic Floet: ordinary shares.
son always.
ness was to have been Frank. The British are pushing ahead, "If he does not lite our na-
-(London Express' Bervica)
Once, when I was in a house
surrounded the house, knocked at the door.
NANCY
Spring and Fall
By Ernie Bushmiller
I'LL LEAVE IT UP
NOW I KNOW
IT'S SAFE
SOAP THAT SPELLS BEAUTY
I'LL PUT THIS UP
IN THE ATTIC
SO IT WON'T
GET BUSTED
DURING
MY
DEN"
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